Alien Relic Hunter

"How about trying again?" said the hound.

"Try again...Wait a minute, I know what's going on!" Ke Lan suddenly raised his head, a bright light flashed in his eyes, "This mechanism is like a Rubik's Cube, because we didn't have any after the first 'turn' Resetting will cause the trajectory formed by the second rotation to become 'garbled'!"

"Reset? Do you mean to move the three of them back to No. 456 first?"

"Yes, first let the stone chamber return to the state it was in before we woke up, and then make another transformation. The movement trajectory obtained in this way will be completely different from the trajectory obtained without reset for the second time... I tried to simulate it in my mind After a while, I can vaguely piece together a few complete characters, which shows that this idea is correct!"

"Then hurry up! I see the doctor that he can't hold on any longer!" Hound said while already carrying the man on his back.

First reset the stone chamber No. 456 to the connecting shaft in the middle, and then move the three of them to the corresponding stone chamber No. 789 - finally, the content of the second half of the sentence came out.

"What exactly did this sentence say?" Hound asked impatiently after Ke Lan injected the medicine into the three of them.

"When the silver ring and the golden ring overlap..." Ke Lan said silently.

"anything else?"

"Gone."

"No more? Isn't this just the first half of the sentence? What's the content of the second half?" Hound said in astonishment.

"That's what the two half-sentences together contain, and that's roughly what it means." Ke Lan shrugged, "But my translation may not be accurate because I can't understand the two words in this sentence. word."

"What two words?"

"'Silver Ring' and 'Golden Ring'... Literally speaking, they are a golden ring and a silver ring, but I don't know what special meaning they have in the language of Alpha civilization. ."

"Does it mean a ring made of gold and silver?" Hound asked as an example.

"No, no, no," Ke Lan shook his head, "In the alpha text, gold and silver in metals and gold and silver are completely different phrases. This sentence only mentions the color and does not mention the material."

"But the problem is that there are no gold or silver rings in these nine stone chambers... except for stones, they are still stones." The hound squatted on the ground, picked up the water bag and took a sip, and said angrily, " This clue is useless."

Looking at this "brainless" clue, Ke Lan couldn't help but fall into confusion.

When the silver ring and the golden ring... overlap...

What do these two rings symbolize? What is the meaning of overlap...

There were clues, but Ke Lan felt even more confused.

"Let's eat something first. After all, we have been trapped in this place for more than ten hours and haven't eaten anything yet." Hound said, taking out a compressed biscuit from his backpack, tearing open the outer packaging and breaking it into pieces. He took down half of it and handed it towards Ke Lan.

"More than ten hours..." Ke Lan took the biscuit and subconsciously glanced at the watch on the hound's wrist - it was an old-fashioned mechanical watch with a spring as the power source, although its functions were not comparable to those on the market. Compared with various high-tech timepieces, its only advantage is reliability: all parts are forged with diamagnetic alloy, the shell is mixed with a large amount of Nino alloy, and the dial is polished from the empty shell of energy crystal. It can achieve accurate timing even in the harshest environments.

Ke Lan also has a watch like this. Like the hunting dog, it is made by a factory called "Jung Precision Machinery". This factory specializes in producing various precision mechanical equipment for elite hunters. In addition to their high prices, their products There are almost no shortcomings outside.

"I know what this sentence means..." Ke Lan stared at the dial on his wrist and said with some excitement.

"Uh... what do you mean... what do gods and demons mean?" the hound quickly swallowed the biscuit crumbs in his mouth and asked.

"The golden ring and the silver ring refer to the 'double moons'... which are the two natural satellites of Alpha Star. Due to the different elements contained in the stars, one of the 'double moons' appears golden, while the other It’s silver, which exactly corresponds to the gold and silver colors in this clue!”

"When the rings overlap, it means that their orbits coincide... Oops, that was a slip of the tongue." The hound also reacted, "Does it mean when the double moon and the Alpha star are in the same straight line?"

This phenomenon is called "bi-lunar eclipse" by humans. Since the orbits of the two moons are on the same horizontal plane, "bi-lunar eclipse" occurs very frequently. Calculated based on the revolution periods of the two moons. , a "bi-monthly internal eclipse" occurs almost every thirty-five hours.

"How long has it been since the last 'bi-moon inner eclipse'?" Hound asked.

"Exactly thirty hours! In other words, there are still five hours until the next 'Double Moon Inner Eclipse', which is what this clue says is 'when the golden ring and the silver ring overlap'! "

"Wait!" The hound crumpled the biscuit packaging bag in his hand into a small paper ball and held it in his palm. "I hope there will be a surprise in five hours..."

…

Just when the "bi-lunar inner eclipse" was still in its last half hour, two people among the people who had fallen into the dream world woke up first.

The two people who woke up were both trainee hunters from the Polar Star Hunting Group. When they saw the stone chamber in front of them, their first reaction was very similar to Ke Lan's. They also drew their guns, but they drew a blank - in order to prevent accidental injuries, all The weapons of people in the dream world have been taken away by Ke Lan and the hounds in advance.

"Yes, he is very alert and has no faults with his emergency response. He is a good candidate." Hound sat on the corner of the stone platform and looked at the two people.

"Where is this? Why... why am I here? Who are you?" The trainee hunter named Martin looked around in surprise. When he noticed Cao Feng lying on the ground, his surprise turned into of fear.

"You...you killed Cao Feng?!"

"Martin, don't get excited. Cao Feng is not dead, he is just in a coma." The person who spoke was not Ke Lan or the hound, but another trainee hunter and the only woman among them - Qin Zhao .

"Oh, I take back what I just said. You are a grown man, but you are not as calm as a woman in this situation, and your observation skills are not that good. It's so shameful." Hound teased with a half-smile.

They don't have any ill intentions towards the rookies of the Polar Star Hunting Group - if possible, they wouldn't mind poaching a corner and attracting these young people... Of course, that is, provided that these rookies can gain their approval.

"Are you also hunters?" Qin Zhao took a look at Ke Lan and the hounds' costumes and made a judgment, "Can you tell us what happened before this?"